People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — An Interesting Coincidence. [ARTICLE]

An Interesting Coincidence.

It is a curious coincidence that tbw new battleship Alabama, which is now being constructed at Cramps’ shipyard, Philadelphia, is No. 290 on their list of vessels constructed. The Confederate . erniser Alubama, which created so much havoc with oommeroe during the war, was No. 290 on the construction list ot the Lairds of England, aud for several months after her purchase by the Confederate government was known as Na 290, until she was christened Alabama. —Chicago Record.